We were really excited to welcome young up-and-comers Kids These Days to Ardent Studios this afternoon. The 7 piece band met while still in high school and have been making music together now for close to two years. KTP, as they call themselves, blend soul, funk and hip hop to make smooth melodies that make […]
The Dirty Streets stopped by Ardent Studios to give us a taste of their new album Movements before what is expected to be a sellout CD release show at The Hi-Tone tonight in Memphis. We knew the band’s reputation proceeded them as the engineers at the studio basically clamored among themselves to get the opportunity […]
We were super excited to have our really good friends The Memphis Dawls stop by Ardent Studios today to record an episode of The Warm Up. We’ve been following these ladies’ musical careers for the last half decade and are thrilled about this new incarnation. You may know Holly Cole from her other project, Holly and […]
In our fantasy, we are totally BFF with Jenny Owen Youngs. After all, we know her first two albums by heart and totally relate to her musical aesthetic. In this fantasy she would call us up on Friday night and ask us to come over to drink beer and listen to records before we went […]
Today on The Warm Up we are super excited to have the band Dawes from Los Angeles. It was just serendipity that their label mates, Lucero, just happen to be at Ardent Studios recording their new album. Dawes is playing Minglewood Hall TONIGHT with M.Ward. Most of the time when we invite bands to come to […]
Wagons, from Melbourne, Australia, are a lot more country than we expected them to be – them being from down under and all – but then when we though about it – it made more sense. Afterall, we did see Australia, the movie! Actually, the band is a lot more country & western than we […]
You guys! I found this really great band out of Denton, called Seryn! And even though they have already played SXSW a few times and been in Paste Magazine and have tons of regional press, when they become huge stars, I am going to totally take credit for discovering them. Anyway, I kind of have […]
Chris Milam doesn’t like Kickstarter – too passive he says. So instead, he has decided to stage his very own fundraiser to raise money to record a new album. He’ll be playing from 4 until 10PM TODAY in front of the I Love Memphis Mural in Cooper-Young. If you are a fan of TVD, you […]
When I caught a glimpse of my friend Rebecca Loebe on a preview of NBC’s The Voice earlier this year, I thought that surely I had been mistaken. The Loebe I knew was a folk singer that played at The Folk Alliance International Showcase every year in Memphis – not a pop-star-wannabe. But a quick […]
So, we were super excited to meet Generationals today and have the opportunity to record them at Ardent. We heard they were analog enthusiasts so we were kind of stoked to show off all of the killer gear we have access to in the studio. We talked about lyrics versus music, analog recording and music […]
East coast indie rockers Stuyvesant dropped by this afternoon to play a stripped down set for us before they tear the roof off of The Buccaneer tonight with Burning Sands and Harlan T. Bobo’s new rock outfit the Fuzz. We chatted about the digital age, vinyl records and the marriage of art and music. The […]
We’ve been fans of White Denim since we saw them play at SXSW way back in 2007. Unfortunately, we haven’t had the chance to see them since. Fortunately, they are playing their very first gig in Memphis tonight at The Hi-Tone. The band was gracious enough to stop by Ardent Studios this afternoon to do […]
One of our favorite finds of the last few weeks is folk songstress Miwa Gemini and her beautiful new album Fantastic Lies of Grizzly Rose. We were delighted when we found out that she’d be playing at The Buccaneer Lounge with another local chanteuse Amy Lavere TONIGHT!. We became even more excited when Miwa agreed […]
We were really excited to have Intimate Stranger visit us to chat about their multicultural background and some of their earliest influences. They are super laid back and we think they had a great time hanging out in the studio for the afternoon. We hope they come back to visit again soon! The band is […]
Wow! We are pretty psyched that legendary Small Faces/Faces keyboardist and session player Ian McLagan stopped by this afternoon to record a few songs for us. He was delightful fun as we conversed about the Faces reunion, his new EP he has yet to finish because he is trying to come up with one last […]
